Wesley J. Smith

This is getting so huge: The Telegraph is reporting that animal rights extremists are going to hold a terrorist training camp to export their terror campaign throughout Europe. Included will be lethal means of fighting for “self defense.”The time has long since past for those in the . . . . Continue Reading »

As readers of Secondhand Smoke and my other writing know, I am trying to raise public awareness of futile care theory (medical futility), which I see as a profound threat to patient autonomy and the concept of equal moral worth among all human beings. The disability right movement “gets . . . . Continue Reading »

As I blogged a few days ago, the Brits are increasingly permitting embryo selection based on explicitly eugenic criteria. The deep-thinking journalist Will Saletan is on the case in . . . . Continue Reading »

Mike Wallace is a big euthanasia supporter and a fan of Jack Kevorkian. Yet, he admits in an upcoming interview upon his retirement from 60 Minutes, that he suffers depression and once attempted suicide. According to the advance PR blurb published in the Drudge Report, Wallace says that the years . . . . Continue Reading »

The tragic case of a teenage boy catastrophically injured in a shooting accident is all over the WEB. Apparently the boy was wounded in the neck and later declared dead by “neurological criteria,” with the University of Kansas Hospital insisting on removing life support and taking the . . . . Continue Reading »

This is so ironic I would laugh out loud, were it not so tragic. Oregon is upset that it has a high rate of elder suicide. Yet, amid the wringing hands, no one seems to get that the state itself, by legalizing physician-assisted suicide—sends an insidious message that suicide is fine and dandy . . . . Continue Reading »

A Canadian psychologist has been reported for unprofessional conduct for taking a friend to Switzerland for an assisted suicide. The friend was not a patient. Full disclosure: I know about this case because the complaining party asked me to write an opinion letter about the goals of the assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

I post stories like this from time to time in order to remind readers that, contrary to the hysterical, repeated assertions of animal liberationists, using animals is an essential part of medical research. This story demonstrates why. In order to do the research on genes that affect aminio acids and . . . . Continue Reading »

One way might be to permit animal using companies to hide the names of shareholders. This is seen as potentially necessary because of tertiary targeting and threats, assaults, vandalism, and lawlessness aimed at people merely for being part owners of companies that use animals and companies that do . . . . Continue Reading »

The Joffe Bill to legalize assisted suicide in the UK is dead, at least for now. Many people in the UK worked long and hard for this day—which not too many months ago seemed as if it might not come. In no small measure, the victory comes because disability rights activists there have, as here, . . . . Continue Reading »